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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 lampasasdispatchrecord.com LAMPASAS DISPATCH RECORD 5

KempnerFest planned for SaturdaySylvia Tucker Memorial Park will be the site of KempnerFest on Saturday. Family-style activities are scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants in a June 2019 city festival, which was called Celebrate Kempner-Pickett Fest, are shown above as they visit various vendor booths.

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Lake Victor Baptist Church3030 FM 2340 • Lampasas

254-547-6732Sunday School: 10:00am

Sunday AM Service: 11:00amWed Prayer Meeting: 6pm

(USA)

FRIDAY, JUNE 26ST. MARY CATHOLIC

CHURCH FOOD PANTRY, 10:30 a.m. to noon. 701 N. Key Ave parking lot. A volun-teer will bring food items to the vehicle.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS, 7-8 p.m. Lampasas Mission, 910 E. Fourth St. NA Help Line, 888-NA-WORKS.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27KEMPNER FEST, 9:30 a.m. to

4 p.m. Sylvia Tucker Memo-rial Park, 12641 East U.S. Highway 190. Event will include concerts, barbecue cookoff, baking challenge, vendors, games, inflata-bles, dance party. For more details, call Kempner City Hall at 512-932-2180.

42 CLUB, 10 a.m. to noon. Lampasas Public Library Foundation Room, 201 S. Main St. Beginners are wel-come. For more info, contact the library at 512-556-3251.

NOTICE:LAKE VICTOR HOMECOMING

EVENT CANCELED THIS YEAR. Organizers plan to hold the event next year.

MONDAY, JUNE 29EARLY VOTING BEGINS

-- DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY ELECTION, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, Lampasas County Elections Office, 407 S. Pecan St., Suite 102 in Lampasas.

TUESDAY, JUNE 30ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,

7 p.m. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Fourth Street and Chestnut.

THURSDAY, JULY 2LAMPASAS 42 CLUB, 6 p.m.

Gypsy Bar, 811 S. Key Ave. Open to anyone who wants to play; any level accepted.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, 7 p.m. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Fourth Street and Chestnut.

FRIDAY, JULY 3INDEPENDENCE DAY

HOLIDAY -- ALL COUNTY OFFICES CLOSED. Lampasas, Kempner and Lometa municipal offices also will be closed.

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and adding safety and histori-cal signs around the spring. 

He said the Lampasas Heritage Foundation would like to install formal parking spots along Hackberry Street and relocate the painted tractor, which currently sits on the west side of the spring, to the children’s area.

“Lampasas is here because of Hanna,” Fish said. “A lot of people don’t understand the whole context of that.” 

The Lampasas Heritage Foundation has received donations for several of the projects, and Fish did not request funds from the city. Mayor Misti Talbert sug-gested that hotel occupancy funds might be available to fund the parking and signage projects.

Council members agreed that, so long as city employ-ees conduct due diligence on the improvements, they would work with the Lam-pasas Heritage Foundation to proceed with the project.

TRUCK PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS

Chief of Police Sammy Bailey presented the latest draft of a city ordinance for commercial parking in residential areas. 

The council, at its May 11 meeting, asked Bailey to draft the ordinance, and the police chief has presented revised versions at each meeting since then. 

At the council’s request, Bailey removed a provision that would have imposed a residency-duration require-ment on permit applicants.

The council approved the ordinance’s first reading unanimously. 

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES Fire Chief Jeff Smith

updated the council on the city’s coronavirus response and statistics. 

He said as of June 22, there were 40,920 active cases in Texas, with 3,409 patients requiring hospitalization. 

In Trauma Service Area L -- which includes Lampasas, Mills, Coryell, Hamilton, Bell and Milam counties – 20 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. On June 22, there were 259 hospital beds, 26 intensive-care-unit beds and 136 ventilators available in Area L. 

Smith said between June 1 and June 22, the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization in Texas increased 94%. He said the rate of cases doubling slowed throughout the pan-demic to once every 32 days on June 15. On June 20, the rate began to quicken, and on June 21 it was once every 28 days. 

Lampasas County now has 10 active coronavirus cases. 

Smith said that with Fourth of July festivities and Spring Ho approaching, Lampasas residents must take care to protect their health. 

“We should be able to go out and enjoy life, and we should be able to go out and enjoy what we have here,” he said. “But we need to be cautious, and we need to get back to practicing the fundamental basics of how to take care of ourselves.” 

Councilwoman Cathy Kuehne suggested encouraging residents to wear masks in public.

Talbert agreed that would be helpful, but she said the council is not considering requiring people to wear

masks in Lampasas. “I do believe it’s important

that we stress to our businesses owners that it is well within their purview to require masks within their businesses, if they so wish,” Talbert said. “And we would support that.”

DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCE MATTERSEconomic Development

Director Mandy Walsh updated the council on the EDC’s plan to extend infra-structure in the business park. She said the EDC is preparing an application for a grant through the CARES Act, which provides funding to strengthen and assist com-munities recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Walsh said the CARES Act grants funding up to 80% of project costs, requiring the EDC to finance the remainder.

The EDC has $488,000 set aside for business-park development, and Walsh said phase 1 construction is estimated to cost $1.9 million. 

In other matters:• Lower Colorado River

Authority representatives told the council they plan to replace a chain-link and concrete fence around the Naruna substation with a high-security mesh fence. Because the metal mesh will be fine, it will be difficult to cut and easy to see through, allowing employees to better secure the facility.

• The council voted unanimously to accept the city’s fiscal-year 2019 audit, which was classified as clean and not modified by auditors. 

Talbert and Mayor Pro Tem TJ Monroe congratu-lated city staff on completing the budget and audit.

“This will be the sixth year in a row that we’ve got-ten to commend the finance department on our audit,” Talbert said. 

• City Manager Finley deGraffenried told the council that the Hancock pool’s occupancy has not been strained since the pool opened to out-of-county residents.

• The council unanimously OK’d the second reading of an ordinance to approve an “open storage, display, or work area for merchandise or machinery” specific-use permit at 108 S. Key Ave.

• Director of Information Systems Monica Wright re-ported on the department’s activities. She said the Lampasas website received 27,898 page views during May, and the city has 6,006 followers on Facebook and 568 on Twitter, as of May. The IT department plans to redesign the city website in the next fiscal year, as the web provider will offer a free upgrade.

• The council unanimously approved the use of $47,208.57 from the Joint Use Facili-ties Fund, which Lampasas shares with Kempner. The funds will be used to improve and replace equipment at the Central Texas Water Supply water treatment plant, where the city’s water is treated. 

• During his report, deGraffenried praised city employee Duane Griffith for helping a man from out of town locate the unmarked grave of his sister.

• The council voted unani-mously to allow Pyrotecnico Fireworks to conduct the annual Spring Ho fireworks show on July 8.

Heritage Foundation to fund improvements at site of Hanna Spring

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